Michael Gordon
Tony Abbott has been warned that he risks undermining public confidence in the courts by attacking the decision of a senior Victorian magistrate to grant bail to an accused terrorist sympathiser.

Michael Gordon
The head of Australia's human rights watchdog has vowed to continue to investigate complaints against the government without fear or favour after Tony Abbott branded a recent decision "pretty...

Michael Gordon
The most troubling aspect of the Senate report into the violence that engulfed the Manus Island detention centre in February is not the finding that the government failed to protect asylum seekers...

Michael Gordon
Tony Abbott didn't say it, but his Medicare co-payment backdown is a belated admission that a centrepiece of his May budget was unfair to the elderly, to families with young children and the...

Michael Gordon
Report finds progress in some areas, including life expectancy, home ownership, year-12 completion and infant survival rates, but alarming increases in incarceration, self-harm and psychological...

Michael Gordon
Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten have met privately and resolved to work together to maximise the prospects of the referendum recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the constitution.

Michael Gordon
The most notorious compound at the Manus Island detention centre does not appear on the official map. The four main compounds, Delta, Foxtrot, Mike and Oscar, are all clearly marked. But not this one.

Michael Gordon
When Tjariya and Inpiti were little girls, the black-footed rock-wallabies were so abundant that their fathers would hunt and spear them for dinner, cooking them in ovens of hot coals in the red dirt...

Michael Gordon
The bad news in the latest jobless statistics is not that it is the biggest monthly figure since the global financial crisis, or that Australia now has a higher unemployment rate than the US.

Michael Gordon
The big surprise in the most detailed qualitative study on post-budget sentiment is that hostility of voters is driven to a large extent by concern that it will promote a less even, less caring...

Michael Gordon
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has granted a permanent visa to a refugee who arrived by boat, despite fighting the boy's case in the High Court and signalling he would not be swayed when the...